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Prinze Jr. and Hewitt Reunite for Gory 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' Sequel

The July 18 release spotlights the duo mentoring a new cast under Robinson’s brutally updated vision of the Southport massacre.

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Overview

  • The film is set to hit theaters on July 18, 2025, and brings back Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray Bronson alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James.
  • Prinze Jr. and Hewitt describe their new scenes as the best work they’ve shared on camera and liken their reunion to a high school reunion built on trust.
  • Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has intensified the sequel’s horror with markedly more gore and meticulously staged kills compared to the original.
  • The plot follows a group of twenty-somethings who cause a fatal car accident in Southport, North Carolina, and return to survivors Julie and Ray when a masked killer strikes a year later.
  • In the sequel, Julie James has become a trauma professor, deepening her character’s evolution and anchoring the franchise’s continuity.